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There I was, leaving the chapel I was just praying in, in Boston, when I saw a familiar face standing outside. A man I had known casually in the past, in the church. He had a clipboard in his hand, and he approached. “Hi Jerome! Hey, we’re looking for people to sign this petition to…

One of the greatest builders of the ancient world in the time of Jesus had a whole slew of projects, and probably none greater than the updating and augmenting of the Temple in Jerusalem. It was a massive overhaul and renovation of the Temple which was rebuilt about 500 years earlier, after the original built…

I have a friend who is an agent in the Secret Service. So, one day we were talking and I asked him, “So, you guard the President?” And he said, “Yup. The president, diplomats, all of them.” And he began to tell me about his office job. He does the recruiting process, and every applicant…

A few years ago, I was in the village of Chontal for Mother’s Day weekend. It got very dark on that Saturday, the day before Mother’s Day, at about 4pm in the afternoon. It was darker than I had ever seen it before, and people knew it was going to rain pretty hard. By 5pm,…

Last December, I returned to a place called San Isidro in Ecuador, a place that was hit hard by the earthquake earlier in the year. After eight months, there were still over 40 families living in tents in schoolyard-turned-relief-shelter, guarded and managed by government and military personnel. I visited one day and went from tent…

The other day I was walking with a friend along a stretch in Boston called Castle Island, where you get up close with the ocean, and a sort of a step outside from the city. As we were walking you could see the city skyline. People are drawn to marvel at city skylines. We all…

When I entered a diocesan seminary some years ago, one of the first things you got was a poster. The poster has pictures of the seminarians, plus the bishop and vocation directors. These posters are given out to parishes and pastors put them up in parishes for everyone to see. Immediately, then, you become a…